BROKEN LEG...

Since it's a recovery week i decided to go for a short ride before work. So i was just riding along going down "acension hill" and this a55hole decides to drive in front of me put on his brakes. For those of you who don't know acension hill is about a hill that varies from 8 to 12 percent grade and it's 110 feet tall. so when my fat a55 gets going down it i get to about 48mph even when i'm on my mountain bike. everybody knows what 50mph feels like in a car so image white knuckling it down hill on bicycle.

there is a rec center at the bottom of acension hill so sometimes people pass you on the hill and cut into the rec center most of the time they just ride behind you patiently because they see you're going dang near 50mph!!! but this morning NO!!! so this guy in a red corolla decides to cut me off and slam on the brakes entering the rec center. there was a black pickup truck boxing me in on the left hand side. it matched my speed perfectly. i don't blame the truck for the accident because i'm the one going 47mph but the mo-fo in the corolla!!!

THE ACCIDENT!!!

so i'm going 47mph and i'm boxed in and the corolla is slamming on his brakes. NOW for all of you who are suggesting i should reach for my brakes at this point just imagine how long it would take you to stop in a CAR going 50mph and you have anti-lock brakes. i have very lockable brakes and i'm on a bicycle so basically i'm screwed if i'm going that fast i need to stop or even slow down. but for the record i did reach for my brakes after i realized my best hope was to slow down enough to change lanes only to realize there were more cars behind the pickup. why??? because they were doing what they were supposed to do by driving on the right lane and letting the slower traffic or me on a bike in the left lane. so i know it's going to happen. I am about to wreck BAD!!! the corolla is braking about to turn into the parking lot when i figure my best bet is let go of the brakes and try to pass the car before it makes the turn. so i pass the car going about 37 at this point and zoom past the car on the inside because there was no room to pass on the outside. and for a second i think i made it. thats when my wheel clipped the curb and i did a superman into the bushes. but pedal hit my shin so hard that it broke it.

so now i have cast on my leg and so long for the ironman this year. 6 weeks in a cast at this point makes it impossible to train. and i won't have enough time to train to afterwards because i will be in rehab mode. that's the part that sux. all this for nothing. maybe next year.

-broken leg dominator


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